Left: 2001.165.24 verso; Right: 2001.165.25 recto Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Left: 2001.165.24 verso; Right: 2001.165.25 recto Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.165.25
People
Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)
Title
Ausable Pond Landscape with Cabin; verso: Mt. McIntyre from Lake Placid-Sept 27th 1863
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Ausable Pond Landscape with Cabin; verso: Landscape with Pond
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1863
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/147360

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on buff wove paper
Dimensions
14.2 x 22.8 cm (5 9/16 x 9 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Sept 22 1863, l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: Lower Ausable Pond / Sept 22nd 1863
  • inscription: Sept 27 1863, l.l. of verso, graphite, in artist's hand: Mt. McIntyre from Lake Placid - Sept [27 written over 26] 1863

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
By descent through artist's family, 1880; Alice Carter Gifford, Cambridge, MA; bequeathed to her son Sanford Gifford, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sanford Gifford
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.165.25
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 1987), verso, p. 241
  • Kevin J. Avery and Franklin Kelly, ed., Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York; New Haven and London, 2003), p. 167, p. 168 verso repr. fig. 108

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